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Aug 2, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 215
86004:
H 89° \ L 59° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind:
12mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 1mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 93°[1902]
Record Low: 43°[1976]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure,
because you won't.
It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction,
or whether you learn from it;
whether you choose to persevere."
-Barack Obama
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Random
Tidbits
The Milky Way galaxy is
100,000 light-years from edge to edge. If a rocket could travel at the speed of
light, it would take 100,000 years to cross the galaxy. By comparison, light
can go from Earth to the moon in just one second.
If our solar system were
the size of a U.S. quarter, the sun would be a microscopic piece of dust and
the Milky Way would be about the size of the United States.
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A little
humor
What was the most groundbreaking invention ever?
I think it was the shovel.
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Observations
This Month
Children's Eye Health & Safety Month
Child Support Awareness Month Link
Children's Vision & Learning Month
Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Golf Month
Happiness Happens Month Link
Motor Sports Awareness Month
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Observations
This Week
World Rope Skipping Week thru 8/3 Link
National
Little League Baseball Week: Thru 23 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Lollapalooza: Thru 8/2 (Virtual)
Gallup International Tribal Indian
Powwow: thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
Satchmo Week: 31-8/2 Cancelled due to COVID-19
International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National
Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due
to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8 Link
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8 Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
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Observations
for Today
American Family Day Link
Friendship
Day Link
International Forgiveness Day
National Coloring Book Day Link
National
Doll Day Link
National
Kids' Day Link
National Psychic Day Link Link
Sisters' Day
Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another warm one here at 7000’. Weather guy says it will cool off
starting tomorrow. I sure hope so. Ninety degrees is my breaking point for the
cooler. There are clouds, dark ones, but weather guy says probably no moisture.
I hope he is wrong. Good news, while writing this, there is a nice very wet thunderstorm
happening.
The Navajo Reservation is on yet another 57-hour lock down…meaning
no business are open. You can not leave your home property. The only exception
is to care for your livestock. This weekend lock own started in late May. It
continues through August. It seems to be helping. For those complaining about
the virus…you might think about living on the Navajo Reservation.
Most of the sports world just can’t get it right. MLB may have to
cancel their shortened season as more and more players test positive. The NBA
and NHL are doing better by having players live in a bubble. The NFL says it’s
going to allow players to travel to games and to return to their homes daily.
Sadly it looks more like money than care for their players.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
would be the next letter in this series?
O T T F F S S
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Historical
Events
1610 – Henry Hudson sailed into what is now known as Hudson Bay
(he thought he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the
Pacific Ocean).
1776 –
The signing of the Declaration of Independence didn’t occur on July 4. After
the Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, the final
language of the document was approved on July 4, and it was printed and
distributed on July 4 – 5. The actual signing was on August 2, 1776, Matthew
Thornton from New Hampshire signed it on November 4, 1776.
1790 – The first United States Census was conducted. There were
3,929,214 people counted that year.
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland"
1869 – Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system
(Shinokosho) was abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
1870 – Tower Subway, the first underground tube railway, opened in
London, England.
1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad began operating the first
cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
1876 – Jack
McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back as he played poker at a saloon in
Deadwood, in the Dakota Territory. Wild Bill held black aces and eights, which
became known as the “dead man’s hand.”
1937 –
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed in America, making marijuana and all
its by-products illegal.
1943 Lt
John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1945 Potsdam Conference between Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and
Winston Churchill (replaced by Clement Attlee after losing the 1945 general
election) ends1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of
Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
1973 – The Summerland Disaster occurred when a fire spread through
the Summerland leisure center in Douglas on the Isle of Man. Fifty people were
killed and eighty seriously injured in the fire, started by some boys smoking
in a closet.
2017 First successful gene editing in human embryos to repair
disease-causing mutation reported by scientists in "Nature"
2017 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing
sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them
2017
Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance
before retiring from public engagements
2018
Apple becomes the first American public listed company to reach $1 trillion in
value
2018
Oldest library in Germany confirmed unearthed in Cologne dating to 2AD,
possibly held 20,000 scolls1990 – Iraq invaded Kuwait, leading to the Gulf War.
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Birthdays
Today
@81 – Peter O’Toole,
British-Irish actor (d. 2013)
@76 – Carroll
O’Connor, American actor (d. 2001; heart attack)
76 – Wes Craven,
Director
@65 – Elisha
Gray, co-founded Western Electric (d. 1901)
61 – Victoria
Jackson, American comedic actress
@60 – Jim
Capaldi, English drummer and singer-songwriter (d. 2005; cancer)
@59 – Andrew
Gold, American singer-songwriter(d. 2011;
cancer)
44 – Michael
Weiss, American figure skater
44 – Sam
Worthington, English-Australian actor
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Puzzle
Answer
E
(One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight)
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